Leighbreen
Leighbreen is a glacier on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard. It is located near the northeastern coast. The glacier is named after British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, who visited the archipelago several times in the 1870s and 1880s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 153 metres
- Description: glacier at Nordaustlandet, Svalbard, Norway
- Also known as: “Leigh Gletscher”
Leighbreen
- Category: landform
- Location: Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Leighbreen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Russian—“Leighbreen” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Librin buzlağı”
- Bulgarian: “Леигхбрен”
- Cebuano: “Leighbreen”
- Dutch: “Leighbreen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leighbreen”
- Norwegian: “Leighbreen”
- Russian: “Либреэн”
- Russian: “Либрин”
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